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Question 9

image/svg+xml 4 -2 16 -2/7 64 -2/49 256 ?
What is the next number in this sequence?

Explanation

In this sequence there are actually two sequences. 1 sequence for the numbers in odd positions (1,3,5 enz) and one sequence for the numbers in the even positions (2,4,6 enz.) The following applies to the numbers in the odd positions:
In this sequence you find the next number by applying the following transformation: *4
VThe following applies to the numbers in the even positions:
In this sequence you find the next number by applying the following transformation: /7
image/svg+xml 4 -2 16 -2/7 64 -2/49 256 ? *4 /7 *4 /7 *4 /7

Question statistics

Overview
Question ID: 8vNQur5i
Main category: Numerical Reasoning
Sub category: Number sequences
Difficulty Level: 9What is item difficulty?
Nr of times answered: 2793
Average IQ of people who answered this question: 99.02
Percentage of answers correct: 68.24%
Item Response Theory (IRT)What is Item Response Theory?
Item difficulty: 9 / 20What is item difficulty?
Discrimination: 1.84 What is item discrimination?
Point of Maximum Information: 89.76 What is Point of Maximum Information?
Item Characteristic Curve (ICC)
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Average IQ of people who gave the correct answer: 101.69 Why does the average IQ of people who answer the questions differ per question?
Average IQ of people who gave an incorrect answer: 93.90
Response Time AnalysisWhat is response time analysis?
Optimal time to spend on question: 47 seconds What is the optimal response time?
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